Landon Y. Jones
Autor(a) de The Essential Lewis and Clark
About the Author
Landon Y. Jones was the managing editor of People magazine for eight years and wrote and edited for Life, Time, Money, and People for thirty-seven years. He is currently a board member of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
Obras de Landon Y. Jones
People Weekly Tribute, Jerry Garcia 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, Bakeless-1964} (1964) — Posfácio, algumas edições — 577 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1943
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Organizações
- People Magazine
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Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom… de Landon Y. Jones
Pop culture-in-the-making for its target audience. Not very deep or enduring; a snapshot of an evanescent sociological cohort.
½
Edited version of the adventure. A little too edited for my taste.
This is an important part of our American history. Traveling up the Missouri was the "easy" part of the trip, but even more than 200 years later I think it would be quite an adventure. Of course finding the headwaters of the Missouri and a path to the Pacific was a physical challenge with many hardships. This book made the story come alive for me with vivid details of the food and physical demands.
This is a book of "distilled" journals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806. Since it's extracted, it's very abbreviated and, supposedly, the boring parts are left out. I discovered a few things about the expedition that I did not know: the Missouri country was also populated with white people (trappers), venereal disease existed among the Indians, Clark was never commissioned a "Captain" by Congress, Lewis got shot on the way back...just to name a few. Good reference if you don't want to study the entire voluminous set.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 430
- Popularidade
- #56,815
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 1